Package: xprt-common Version: 0.1.0.alpha1-4 Severity: important
After doing an apt-get upgrade, I couldn't start an X session any more (neither via kdm, nor from the cmd line with "startx"). After such a failed attempt, the file ~/.xsession-errors contains this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for dh at Fri Jan 14 11:36:21 CET 2005 /etc/init.d/xprint: 531: Syntax error: Bad substitution [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Actually this is more of a "grave" or even "critical" bug, but I can only imagine that it must have to do with my oarticular system, otherwise all "testing" distributions must have broken yesterday! Not knowing what to do I at first tried to uninstall xprt-common, but x-window-system depends on it. So I worked around quite brutally by just adding the line "exit 0" right after the #!/bin/bash bit of /etc/init.d/xprint. At least now I can log back into my system. Just for curiosity: Why does a file from /etc/init.d/ get executed from a user process? I thought all the stuff in this directory was strictly system-startup stuff. (I tried to file the same bug report 2 hours ago, but it didn't show up in the BTS, nor did I get a reply email. If it ever made it to the BTS, please delete it. Thanks and sorry for possibly having created confusion). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages xprt-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients ii xprt-xprintorg [xprt] 0.1.0.alpha1-4 Xprint - the X11 print system from -- debconf information: xprt-common/remove_old_conffiles: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
